Washington (CNN) -- Years-old but newly scrutinized videos of MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber ignited a political firestorm this week because the self-described architect of Obamacare thanks "the stupidity of the American voter" for leading to passage of the president's signature piece of legislation.

Everything is falling apart for Democrats, so much so that they are now forced to come up with the most absurd sounding excuses for hiding facts. For example, many on the left want us to think that there are no legal experts writing articles or on the television who can explain legally complex things to us. While our nation is very, very dumbed down, one California Democrat thinks that Americans are simply too stupid to read a memo.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) has said, “We can’t release the FISA memo because American’s won’t understand it,” according to the Goldwater. We are all expected, it can be assumed, to kneel at the great mind of Schiff since he seems to understand it. This is the kind of condescending tripe that passes for leadership when a Democrat gets into office.

CNN host Ana Cabrera “asked if the FISA memo should be released to the public for them to draw their own conclusions based on the facts” and that was really the haughty answer that he gave.